On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 12:10:42PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: > This is a really basic question. Why does only part of the console > output on boot go into the /var/log/dmesg file? /var/log/dmesg is a dump of the kernel's message buffer taken shortly after boot. It allows you to easily get your kernel boot messages even after the message buffer has been overwritten by newer messages. The kernel message buffer (man dmesg) only contains kernel output. Console output can come from places other than the kernel. Check with /etc/syslog.conf to see where the message you might want are going, but remember that just because something gets printed on the console, that doesn't mean it's logged anywhere. noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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